Neil

It's like Caracas sometimes, it makes me knackered when I'm shaking my maracas

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“he will continue teaching” lmao, so the skeevy sex pest won’t damage the brand for future donors and other influential alums but he’ll still interact with current young people as an educator and mentor, really innovative way to lay the priorities and power relationships bare

My picks for replacement Goblin King are as follows:

Cate Blanchett
Ncuti Gatwa
Mike Faist
Anya Taylor-Joy
Lee Pace

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?

HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--

KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

Haha and so will my 6 y/o if the last month is anything to go by!

a worm is crawling on a concrete surface next to a blue shadow Alt: a centipede crawling along a path with the low sun casting a shadow that makes the centipede look HUMUNGOUS

Hahaa, this has been a wonderful poll (both for discoveries and old favourites) and yet it seems oddly fitting that my A and B final picks both came 4th in their final matches 🤪 Feel like I've been on the wrong end of the voting results for most of the tourney!

Ah well : c'est la vie, centipede 🙃

Wow.

And Tim's written so many books I can't do 'em all justice in a Skeet, but I can heartily recommend "Fun At One : The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1" (from Kenny Everett to Chris Morris and beyond).
His latest, "The Golden Age Of Children's TV", promises to be ace too!

timworthington.org/books/

Buy Justin's latest* book #IntoTheGroove, a month-by-month guide to 1980s pop "from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh" :

bsky.app/profile/when...

* his followup to the ace #DontStopTheMusic, a day-by-day guide to ALL pop :)

Q2 : a quote from a Qu*stion T1me parody (similar to the KMKY/Enfield ones) : "many people wonder why society's broken down, how can we explain this awful situation; well of course it's because of the bl*cks" <boom-tssch> - any idea? Extremist satire then, all too relevant now sadly. Thanks both :)

I have a couple of idle qs for comedy scholar types (picked @whenisbirths.bsky.social and @outonbluesix.bsky.social, hope that's okay - BUY THEIR BOOKS everyone! 😊 )

First (easier) q - which ep of On The Hour has the Peanuts parody (with the ace punchline "YNFA, Charlie Brown")?

Absolutely ridiculous - check out what I was listening to (yep, the first track with that same dialogue) exactly 5 mins ago when you posted that! I'd say the chances of both of those happ'ning at once are a million to one...

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

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B-Sides : I wouldn't have picked or guessed M500 or Onyeabor to make the final but I kinda like such bloodymindedly minimal tracks going the distance :) Decided my vote based on "how long till I look at my watch during WO?" - it was a full 9m34s so Good Name takes it! Both good tracks tho 👍

A-Sides : torn between Smooth Operator and Forget-Me-Nots. Felt Sade was taken for granted through the tourney so pleased she's here; F-M-N takes it by a whisker, partly cause I feel bad at teenage me giving Will Sm1th props for his ace tunes instead of Patrice/Sister Sledge/The Whispers/Stevie W...

Also (Hi @davidstubbs.bsky.social, love @chartmusictotp.bsky.social AND yr ace Future Days book) - I h8 that RG's fave Bowie track is Letter To Hermione EVEN THO it's gr8; SUCH a wanky "I prefer his early work" pick. To quote D Kitson, say We Are Hungry Men and start losing friends ya f***in chicken

All good thinking people : Trump sucks

Bill C [allegedly] : Ooh yeah baby tell me about it

REBECCA [don't know her, my opinion on this differs from hers but I'm sure she's lovely irl] : I enjoyed it. He's a terrible person, but he has made some really good work ME : My view - he's a terrible person, but he has collaborated with some moderately talented people (Stephen Merchant) and ripped off some fantastic ideas (People Like Us, "The Office" sketch on The Day Today). Divorced from those influences he rapidly reverts to his default mode of punching down against gays, blacks, Asians, the disabled, those poorer than himself (i.e. 99% of the global population), women and anyone who might even slightly threaten his gossamer-thin ego. But hey, potayto potahto amirite?

FB is a clickbait binfire but adding BSky non-IRL pals as Friends massively improves it. Current hobby : waiting for @davidstubbs.bsky.social to post totally justified demolitions of Dicky Hervaid, then going to town on the unfunny racist ableist sexist homophobe (RG not DS!) in the comments. Fun 😁

Me in my first flush of People's Pop enthusiasm (debut singles?) when I decided to post a comment on EVERY MATCH, including a view on EVERY SINGLE TRACK, and how I was voting. Was an interesting exercise but maintaining momentum was a challenge, and God knows what it was like for Tom to have to read

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

Shocked to hear of the death of Rachel Cooke at 56 — I didn’t even know she was ill. I always enjoyed reading her reviews and features: she brightened any page of the paper.

HOWEVER there was, I’ll concede, less news media with a space to fill, to be filled with deliberately inflammatory shit. That’s one thing I miss.

‘Most people think Britain was better 50 years ago’ because you were younger, and your parents paid all the household bills. How many times.

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao

Appalled to say I saw this photo (specifically the sign in the middle) amd thought "Well that seems pretty generous - oh hang on, you mean 15 quid *each*..."

Just took an actual late nite minicab home. The driver was playing Smooth Relax. It was a three-song journey: On The Wings Of Love, Nobody Does It Better, and... of course... Hello. IT'S AN OMEN. See you in 24 hours, Brighton! www.facebook.com/events/18569...

Oof was my response too! My 1 and 2 pointers are here, otherwise none of my top FIFTEEN in the final group have made it into Pollhalla. And that's before we get to the many Golden Beat-worthy B sides that didn't even get this far...

(positive spin - there was a hella lotta good tracks in these Bs!)

Haha I'm glad somebody else thinks their own comments stick out a mile! I thought it was just me 😄

DVD cover of the BBC sketch show Big Train, co-created by a person whose views on Big Trans are best left in the bin.

"Hang on, wasn't that a sketch show co-created by Gr*ham Lineh-" <yoink!>

"The African track = popular with late voters pattern"

👋 it me 😇